The most annoying factor from the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" crowd is that the nuance of holding your nose and voting for bad people dies with your vote. A lot of mainstream Democrats will see a sweeping Biden victory as an approval of their "work" during the Trump Era and learn the wrong message, setting us up for future disaster when the next Republican monster wins POTUS.
The most annoying factor from the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" crowd is that the nuance of holding your nose and voting for bad people dies with your vote. A lot of mainstream Democrats will see a sweeping Biden victory as an approval of their "work" during the Trump Era and learn the wrong message, setting us up for future disaster when the next Republican monster wins POTUS.
A lot of mainstream Democrats will see a sweeping Biden victory...
"This candidate is inevitable, we need to nominate him/her because a more left candidate will lose, and it will be your responsibility to vote for them to save us from this unprecedented disaster" Has literally never worked in a general election. Not in 2000. Or 2004. In 2008 it didn't even work in the primary and a Dem politician who was at least willing to lie to progressives, instead of telling them "fuck you you'll vote for me anyway and like it" won, and there was a massive, unprecedented turnout. Then they immediately returned to VBNMW in 2016 and it failed.
Now we're banging our head against the same brick wall and hoping that a politician who literally won against exactly this attack, is going to somehow lose.
As though Trump voters didn't pretend they didn't want to vote for Trump, as though polls didn't show the leftist up, as though open contempt (I have no sympathy for millenials, don't vote for me if you believe Tara Reade, not even campaigning in some states, Laughing at the idea of free college) for their own base didn't erode turnout. As though there isn't a pandemic that is going to keep people home on election except for the lunatics who think it's made up who, coincidentally, all vote for one party. As though, shit, I dunno, voting is going to be even harder for poor people who already struggle to get to the polls on a workday and almost uniformly vote for the other party.
I saw that. A friend who was a journalism major and works in a Press Freedom NGO abroad was asking why it was necessary for a platform the size of the intercept to nuke a college dems group from orbit and I told him to watch the movie Election. Nits make lice.
And in any case, even assuming this kid isn't brought into the fold as a reliable bagman, even assuming his career is fucked before it starts, these soulless Mayo Pete freaks are like the hydra. Two more will spring from his charred stump.
Knowing that we have, conservatively, 30 more years of Mayor Pete and countless dorks following his template makes me think that the accelerationists have a point.
Talking to a friend about the GOP whining about 'whose statue is next, George Washington?' I went back and looked up the Shay and Whiskey Rebellions, because I know I was taught about them multiple times in multiple grades' history classses, but knew not one detail about why.
Turns out the one was over banks and lenders reposessing people's farms and homes. The 'rebels' blocked courthouses to prevent evictions. Like we're literally doing in New Orleans now. The other was a regressive tax meant to raise money off poorer farmers in the 'west' (like, Western PA and Ohio at that point) while letting the wealthier merchants and farmers back east skate. It also had the effect of advantaging wealthier eastern farmers, letting them buy up and buy out those poorer farmers.
Like, George Washington's first acts as president were essentially murdering Occupy/anti-eviction protestors. They even passed a law preventing anyone sympathetic to the Shays rebellion from running for office to prevent a reckoning like BLM folks are trying to make happen running in Ferguson elections.
All this is to say, I've come around on accelerationism. Ain't shit gonna change in this country. Lets start over with a new one.
The most annoying factor from the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" crowd is that the nuance of holding your nose and voting for bad people dies with your vote. A lot of mainstream Democrats will see a sweeping Biden victory as an approval of their "work" during the Trump Era and learn the wrong message, setting us up for future disaster when the next Republican monster wins POTUS.
A lot of mainstream Democrats will see a sweeping Biden victory...
"This candidate is inevitable, we need to nominate him/her because a more left candidate will lose, and it will be your responsibility to vote for them to save us from this unprecedented disaster" Has literally never worked in a general election. Not in 2000. Or 2004. In 2008 it didn't even work in the primary and a Dem politician who was at least willing to lie to progressives, instead of telling them "fuck you you'll vote for me anyway and like it" won, and there was a massive, unprecedented turnout. Then they immediately returned to VBNMW in 2016 and it failed.
Now we're banging our head against the same brick wall and hoping that a politician who literally won against exactly this attack, is going to somehow lose.
https://twitter.com/coherentstates/status/1293609254545502211
As though Trump voters didn't pretend they didn't want to vote for Trump, as though polls didn't show the leftist up, as though open contempt (I have no sympathy for millenials, don't vote for me if you believe Tara Reade, not even campaigning in some states, Laughing at the idea of free college) for their own base didn't erode turnout. As though there isn't a pandemic that is going to keep people home on election except for the lunatics who think it's made up who, coincidentally, all vote for one party. As though, shit, I dunno, voting is going to be even harder for poor people who already struggle to get to the polls on a workday and almost uniformly vote for the other party.
This is who gets rewarded when you VNBMW:
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/14/alex-morse-richie-neal-state-party/
I saw that. A friend who was a journalism major and works in a Press Freedom NGO abroad was asking why it was necessary for a platform the size of the intercept to nuke a college dems group from orbit and I told him to watch the movie Election. Nits make lice.
And in any case, even assuming this kid isn't brought into the fold as a reliable bagman, even assuming his career is fucked before it starts, these soulless Mayo Pete freaks are like the hydra. Two more will spring from his charred stump.
Knowing that we have, conservatively, 30 more years of Mayor Pete and countless dorks following his template makes me think that the accelerationists have a point.
Talking to a friend about the GOP whining about 'whose statue is next, George Washington?' I went back and looked up the Shay and Whiskey Rebellions, because I know I was taught about them multiple times in multiple grades' history classses, but knew not one detail about why.
Turns out the one was over banks and lenders reposessing people's farms and homes. The 'rebels' blocked courthouses to prevent evictions. Like we're literally doing in New Orleans now. The other was a regressive tax meant to raise money off poorer farmers in the 'west' (like, Western PA and Ohio at that point) while letting the wealthier merchants and farmers back east skate. It also had the effect of advantaging wealthier eastern farmers, letting them buy up and buy out those poorer farmers.
Like, George Washington's first acts as president were essentially murdering Occupy/anti-eviction protestors. They even passed a law preventing anyone sympathetic to the Shays rebellion from running for office to prevent a reckoning like BLM folks are trying to make happen running in Ferguson elections.
All this is to say, I've come around on accelerationism. Ain't shit gonna change in this country. Lets start over with a new one.
How bleak and accurate.